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The latest in our workshop series on leading-edge, actionable global change research focuses on energy-at-scale. In this invitation-only, lecture-free workshop, participants will engage with Joint Program experts in an interactive dialogue highlighting key challenges and opportunities in large-scale, low-carbon energy technology deployment.

Leading researchers (including MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly) and legislators will discuss carbon pricing. Panelists will include the Mass. state legislators who introduced carbon pricing bills into the legislature and MIT faculty, including MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly. Hosted by Climate Action. Learn more.

Amid much uncertainty about the future of the global climate and efforts aimed at preventing its most damaging impacts, graduate students affiliated with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change are hard at work exploring some of the challenges and possible solutions that lie ahead. They are also sharing their knowledge with the MIT community.

On November 6 at 3:20, MIT Joint Program Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek will participate in the panel "Uncertain Water Future." Uncertainty in the global political atmosphere, climate change, and resource management play a large role in today's world. How will climate change impact food and water resources? What roles do politics and the economics of water play? What technologies are available to reduce uncertainty?

Humans have faced a series of national and global environmental challenges in the past half-century, including smog, the use of lead in gasoline, ozone depletion, and much more. This talk reveals how combinations of science, public policy, industry participation, and the engagement of citizens can succeed in addressing environmental challenges.